Railway-tie.



M. HRNICH.

RAILWAY TIE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 6. 1915i 1,177,413. Pa tented Mar. 28,1916.

THE COLUMBIA PLANODRAPH co., WASHINQTONIIL c.

UNITED sTATEsrATENT OFFICE.

MILAN HRNICH, or coNEMAUGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

RAILWAY-TIE.

Application filed January 6, 1916. Serial No. 70,656.

To allwizomitmay concern: Y

Be it known that I, MILAN HRNICH, a sub.- ject of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, residing at Conemaugh, in the county of Cambria and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway-Ties, and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will en able others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in railway ties, and has for its principal object to. provide a simply constructed tie which can be easily and quickly laid without the use of skilled labor.

A still further object is to provide a tie which will be practically indestructible.

lVith the above and minor objects in view, my invention resides in the novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts which will hereinafter be more particularly described and claimed.

In the. accompanving drawing: Figure 1 represents 'a top plan view of one of my improved ties showing the rail clamps in 0perative position; Fig. 2 isacentral vertical longitudinal section throughone of the ties and the clamps; Figs. 3 and 4 are detail transverse sections taken on the lines 3-3. and 41 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one of the rail supporting blocks.

In its preferred form, my invention comprises broadly a pair of rail supporting blocks 1 which are spaced apart and connected by their adjacent ends by the channel or U-shaped connecting plate 2. Each of these blocks 1 is substantially rectangular in plan view and square in cross section, and re-- ceives one or more rails on its upper face, said blocks being arranged in longitudinal alinement as shown. The inner or adjacent end of each of the blocks is recessed on its bottom as shown at 3 to receive the bottom 4 of the connecting plate 2, said recesses being of a depth substantially equal to the thickness of the connecting plate, while the sides of said adjacent ends are recessed as shown at 5-to. receive the ends of the upright portions 6 of the connecting plates. As shown in Fig. 2, these upright portions of the connecting plate extend but slightly more than half the height of the rail supportingblocks. and therefore the recesses 5 formed in said blocks, as shown "in Fig. 5,

do not extend upwardly farther than a point sl ghtly above the center thereof. By this constructlon, inasmuch as the widths of the v blocks 1 and the connectingplate are the same, the outer sides of said connecting plate and the blocks will be flush as shown in Fig. 1,'as are also thebottomsof said blocks and the plate, as shown in Fig. 2.

The recesses 5 havetransverselyextending openings 7 communicating therewith which are alined with the apertures 81 formed in the upright portions 6 of the'co'nnecting plate adjacent the ends thereof:

These alined openings and apertures receive the plns or other fastening elements 9 which are held 1n place by thecotter pins 10, this particular arrangement being provided be- Specification of Letters Patent. Patented luau, 28, 1916.

cause of the-greater ease with which {the parts can be assembled than if bolts and nuts were used. When once the parts here'- tofore described have been secured in cooperatlve relation, a very substantial tie will be produced, and if all parts thereof are constructed of metal, it will last an. extremely long time, obviously a much greater length of time than the ordinary wooden tie. The rail supporting blocks 1 may also be verv readily formed from cement and which will also provide a very long lasting and strong structure. A

The top of each of the rail supporting blocks 1 is provided with a longitudinally extending substantially rectangular recess 11 in which the rail clamps C are disposed in order to hold the rails R in position on the tie. I preferably provide two forms of clamps C, an outer clamp and an inner clamp, the former being considerably stronger than the latter to hold the rails against spreading. Each outer clamp comprises a rail bracing head 12 which is substanti ally the width of the blocksl and overlies the same as is shown in Fig. 1. The

heads 12 are provided with seats 13 to re- 7 ceive the heads of the rails R and with the grooves 14 for the reception of the outer base flanges thereof. Each head 12 also has a substantially rectangular ton ue 15 depending therefrom into one of the recesses 11, said tongue being s bstantially the width thereof. as shown in Fig. 3.

The inner clamps are preferably merely rectangular members 16 substantially the width of thegrooves 11. and are provided with notches 17 to receive the inner base flanges of the rails. As shown, these inner clamps extend only a short distance abovei the tops of the supporting blocks 1 and conhold the rails. In some cases it becomes necessary tosupport a guard rail R on either= one or both of the blocks 1, in which case an additional rail clamp 18 is provided; This clamp 18 is substantially similar to the clamps 16 with the exception that both sides thereof are provided with grooves 17J for, therccoption of the ad acent base flanges of the rails R andlt.

In order to secure the rail clamps-against movement in the recesses 11 and hold the rails inoperative position on the blocks 1,

I provide the looking bolts 19 and 20 which are threaded in'openings '21 in the ends, both inner and outer, oi the rail supporting blocksgla As shown these locking bolts ex 1 tend into the recesses 11 and contact with the rail clamps disposed therein, he bolts 19 resting-in seatsin the tongues 15 of the 1 outer rail clamps, While the bolts 20 abut the lunar clamps 16. In use,-the:rai! s are disposed on the blooks the proper distance apart and the clamping members 'inoved into contact therewith, and whenthis has been done, the locking bolts 19 and 20' are tightened until the rails are securely held between their respective-clamps. It-is obvious that an ad ustment of this character can bemade very quickly, and at any time.

After the bolts 19 and zOhave been tight '7 ened to secure the rails and the blocks,

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each; by addressing the Commissioner'ot'ratentagf: V 3 r against longitudinal. shifting, on theitie, the i A tie comprising "a pair of i'rectangulan 2 rail' supporting blocks. placed in 'spacedi apart-w longitudinal alinement, a channelshaped :connecting 'plate of a Width =c0rr'e-; spondingto the Widthof said blocks and 'un-" derlying and receiving theadjacent ends? thereof in said channel, said adjacent ends being recessed on their sides and bottom for the reception of the ends-of saidiplaterand:

60 provided'with transversely extending open-:

in s then right portions of'said late hav a a P P ing apertures aliningx with said openings;

connecting elements :passing" through said alined apertures and opening's, and means Inltestimony whereof 'I have hereuntms'eti my hand-in presence/of two subscribmg wit- 1 nesses: e MILAN HRNICHI Witnesses? T EODQRE RENDESSI, G. W. B'OGDANICH.

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